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Anikó Imre - TV Socialism - 9780822360858 - V9780822360858
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TV Socialism

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Description for TV Socialism Hardback. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; APT; HBJD; JFDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
In TV Socialism, Anikó Imre provides an innovative history of television in socialist Europe during and after the Cold War. Rather than uniform propaganda programming, Imre finds rich evidence of hybrid aesthetic and economic practices, including frequent exchanges within the region and with Western media, a steady production of varied genre entertainment, elements of European public service broadcasting, and transcultural, multi-lingual reception practices. These televisual practices challenge conventional understandings of culture under socialism, divisions between East and West, and the divide between socialism and postsocialism. Taking a broad regional perspective encompassing Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Imre foregrounds continuities ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Console-ing Passions
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360858
SKU
V9780822360858
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Anikó Imre
Anikó Imre is Associate Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe.

Reviews for TV Socialism
"... [Imre] has composed an engaging and path-breaking study offering further insight into the multiplicity of phenomena long obscured behind the notion of totalitarianism."
David Sockol
H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews
"Anikó Imre has written a field-transforming book, with implications that reach far beyond television studies."  
Christine E. Evans
European Journal of Cultural Studies ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for TV Socialism


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